The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-07

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nings and drown him with floods, and
swallow him with earthquakes, and
damn him with eternal indignations
Some one said: II dislike very much to
see that Christian woman teaching those
bad boys in the mission school. l
am afraid to have her instruct Them
So said another man, 81 am afraid,
too" Said the first: Il am afraid
they viii use vile language before they
leave the place. .Ah, = said the other
man, 81 am not afraid of that. What
am afraid of is, that if any Of those
boys should use a bad word in that
presence the other boys would tear him
to pieces and kill him ON the spot. .
That woman is the best sheltered who
is sheltered by the Lord God Almighty,
and you need never fear going anywhere
I, where God tells you to go.
1t seems as if the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the solicit
tation of charities. Backed up by barrels
in which there is no flour, and by stoves
in which there is no fire, and by ward
robes in which there are no clothes, a
woman is irresistible; passing on her
errand God says to her: You go into
that bank, or store, or shop, and get the
money" She goes in and gets it. The
man is hard listed, but she gets it. She
could not help but get it. 1t is decreed
from eternity she should get it. No need
Of your turning your back and pretend
ing you don t hear; you do hear. There
is no need of your saying you are begged
to death. There is no need Of your vast
ing your time, and you might as well
submit first as last. You had better right
away take your check book, mark the
number Of the check, fill up the blank,
sign your name and hand it to her.
There is no need of wasting time. Those
poor children ON the back street have
been hungry long enough. That sick
man must have some farina. That con-
sumptive must have something to ease
his cough. | meet this delegate of a re-
lief society coming out of the store of
such hard listed man, and say: Ibid
you get the money! ''Of course, she
says, Il got the money; that's what j
went for. The Lord told me TO go in and
get it, and he never sends me on fools
Grand +"
Again: have to tell you that il is a
woman's specific right to comfort under
the stress of dire disaster. She is called
the weaker vessel; but all profane as web
as sacred history attests that when the
crisis comes she is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
you have seen a woman who seemed to
be disciple of frivolity and Incidence,
who. under one stroke of calamity,
changed to a heroine. Oh, what great
mistake those business men make who
never tell their business troubles to their
| wives There comes some great loss to
their store, or some of their companions
in business play them a sad trick, and
they carry the burden all alone. He is
asked in the household again and again:
What is the matter? but he believes it a
sort of Christian duty TO keep all that
trouble within his own soul. Oh, your
first duty was to tell your wife all about
it. She, perhaps, might not have olsen
tangled your finances. or extended your
credit. but she would have helped you to
bear misfortune. You have no right 10
carry ON one shoulder that which is in
tended for two There are business men
here who know what / mean. There
came crisis in your affairs. You strug-
gled bravely and long; but after a while
there came a day when you said: Here
| shall have to stop, and you called in
your partners, and you called in the most
prominent men in your employ, and you
said: 1--WE have got to STOP" You left
the store suddenly. You could hardly
make up your mind to pass through the
street and over ON the ferry boat. You
felt everybody would be looking at you,
and blaming you, and denouncing you.
You fastened home You told your wife
all about the affair What did she sayi
Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk
about the silks, and the ribbons, and the
fashions? No. She came up to the ep'nr-
geney. She quai1ed not under the
stroke. She helped you to begin to plan
right away. She offered TO go out of the
comfortable house into smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter. She
was one who understood Your affairs
without blaming you. You looked upon
what you Thought was a thin. weak
woman's arm holding you up: but white
you looked at that arm, there came into
the feeble muscles of it the strength of
the eternal God. No Gliding No fret
ting. No telling you about the beautiful
house of her father, from which you
brought her, ten, twenty or thirty years
ago. You said: well, this is the
happiest day OF my life. l am glad
have got from under my burden.
My wife don't care-I don't care.
At the moment you were utterly ex-
hausted, God sent Deborah 10 meet
the host of the Amalekites and scatter
them like chaff over the plain. There
are sometimes women who sit reading
sentimental novels, and who wish that
they had some grand field in which to
display their Christian powers. o, what
grand and glorious things they could do
if they only had an opportunity! Ny
ister, you need not wait for any such
time. A crisis will come in your affairs.
There will be Thermopylae in your own
household where God will tell YOU 10
stand. There are scores and hundreds of
households today where as much bravery
and courage are demanded of woman as
was exhibited by Grace Darling. or Marie
Antoinette, or Joan of Arc.
Again: l remark, it is woman's right
to bring to us the kingdom of heaven. 1t
is easier for a woman to be a Christian
than for a man. Why? You say she is
weaker. No. Her heart is more re-
sponsive TO the pleadings of divine love
She is in vast majority. The fact that
she can more easily become a Christian,
prove by the statement that three
fourths of the members of the churches
In all Christendom are women. So God
appoints them to be the chief agencies
for bringing this world back to God may
stand here and say the soul is immortal
There is man who will refute it. may
stand here and say we are lost and
undone without Christ There is a man
who will refute it. / may stand here
and say there will be a Judgment day
after while. Yonder is some one who
viii refute it, But Christian woman
In Christian household living in the
faith and the consistency of Christ's Cos
pel-nobody can refute that. The great
est sermons are not preached ON cele-
brated platforms; they are preached with
an audience of two or three, and in pri-
waite home life. A consistent. conse-
Grated Christian service is an unanswera-
BILE demonstration of God S truth A sailor
came slipping down the ratline one night,
as though something had happened,
andtth sailors cried: '.What's the mat
terri" He said: my mothers prayers
haunt me like ghost. Home influences.
consecrated, Christian home influences
are the mightiest of all influences upon
the soul. There are men here today who
have maintained their integrity, not be-
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